Cupressaceae
Oriental arbor-vitae
Platycladus orientalis
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Platycladus
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Common names
By language (15)
- Arabic
- شجر الحياه, عنص
- Azerbaijani
- Şərq tuyası
- Chinese
- 侧柏, 圆柏, 扁柏, 扁桧, 扁檜, 柏, 柏子仁, 柏枝节
- Danish
- Thuja
- English
- Oriental arbor-vitae, Oriental arborvitae, Chinese arborvitae, Oriental thuja
- Finnish
- Idäntuijat
- Hindi
- थुजा, विद्या
- Hungarian
- Keleti életfa
- Lithuanian
- Rytinė tuja, Tujūnas
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Kinesisk arborvitae, Platycladus, Platycladusslekten
- Polish
- Platykladus, Platykladus wschodni, Żywotnik wschodni
- Portuguese
- Arborvitae, Tuia da china
- Russian
- Биота восточная, Восточная туя, Плосковеточник восточный, Туя восточная
- Spanish
- Tuya oriental
- Ukrainian
- Біота східна, Широкогілочник східний
Synonyms
- Biota chengii (Bordères & Gaussen) Bordères & Gaussen
- Biota coraeana Siebold ex Gordon & Glend.
- Biota dumosa Carrière
- Biota elegantissima Beissn.
- Biota ericoides Carrière
- Biota excelsa Gordon
- Biota falcata Carrière
- Biota fortunei Carrière
- Biota freneloides hort. ex Gordon
- Biota funiculata Gordon
- Biota glauca Carrière
- Biota gracilifolia Knight
- Biota intermedia Gordon
- Biota japonica Siebold ex Gordon
- Biota macrocarpa Gordon
- Biota meldensis P.Lawson ex Gordon
- Biota nepalensis Endl. ex Gordon
- Biota orientalis (L.) Endl.
- Biota orientalis f. sieboldii W.C.Cheng & W.T.Wang
- Biota orientalis var. aurea Carrière
- Biota orientalis var. beverleyensis Hu
- Biota orientalis var. cristata Carrière
- Biota orientalis var. cupressoides Carrière
- Biota orientalis var. elegantissima Rollison ex Gordon
- Biota orientalis var. falcata Carrière
- Biota orientalis var. fernandiana Lavallée
- Biota orientalis var. filiformis (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Henkel & W.Hochst.
- Biota orientalis var. flagelliformis (Jacques) Hoopes
- Biota orientalis var. pendula (Thunb.) Carrière
- Biota orientalis var. semperaurescens Lemoine ex Gordon
- Biota pendula (Thunb.) Endl.
- Biota prostrata Gordon
- Biota pyramidalis Carrière
- Biota semperaurescens Beissn.
- Biota stricta (Spach) Lindl. & Gordon
- Biota tatarica Lindl. & Gordon
- Biota variegata Gordon
- Biota wareana Gordon
- Biota zuccarinii Siebold ex Carrière
- Chamaecyparis decussata Carrière
and 77 more.
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
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Photo: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sun Jiao, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sun Jiao, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sun Jiao, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Luksongm MWLLOPPEE, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.